Shelby Steele, an acclaimed author, has long argued that systemic racism is a strategy rather than a fact, and that black Americans are mostly free of global tyranny. However, the 2014 shooting of a black teen, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri stunned the nation. America was once again horrified by the terrible murder of George Floyd during Steele's probe of Ferguson. Didn't these assassinations, along with a lengthy list of others, refute Steele's argument?
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Shelby Steele, an acclaimed author, has long argued that systemic racism is a strategy rather than a fact, and that black Americans are mostly free of global tyranny. However, the 2014 shooting of a black teen, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri stunned the nation. America was once again horrified by the terrible murder of George Floyd during Steele's probe of Ferguson. Didn't these assassinations, along with a lengthy list of others, refute Steele's argument?
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